Why You Are Lost

If you do not know

That you are lost,

There is no reason to read this.

 

Everyone is lost.

 

Lost in turmoil.

Lost in confusion.

Lost in anxiety.

Lost in fear.

Lost in failure.

Lost in conflict.

Lost in unwanted results.

Lost in poor performance . . .

 

You are standing upright.

You may not be in tears at this moment.

You may appear held-together . . .

But this is because you have created

A veritable institution of band-aids

To make it through each day.

 

Ingesting X to numb your feelings.

Socializing with so and so to avoid your loneliness.

Taking vacations in an attempt to lessen your stress.

Reading self-help in an attempt to improve mood and habits.

 

These are the reasons

You are able to stand upright

(When you, in fact, can.)

 

Your band-aids

Are piled one on top of another.

 

Beneath the band-aids

Are gallons of anesthetic.

 

Then you look at others

And take pride

That you are “happier”

Than they are.

 

Why are you lost.

 

Because lost-ness

Is guaranteed

When one subscribes

To society

And its ways.

 

Lost-ness

Is guaranteed

When one imbibes

The litany of information

That surrounds him.

 

If there was no spirituality,

No religion,

And no self-help,

That alone . . .

Would eliminate

A significant percentage

Of human turmoil.

 

The attempt to “improve”

Destroys human beings.

 

Who are the ones

That have been telling you for decades

To improve?

 

Who are these “improvement experts?”

 

They are those

Who are lost themselves.

 

If Jesus came out of the sky,

Or Buddha came out of a cave,

And asked you to spend some time with him . . .

You MAY have a chance.

 

Anything short of that

Is simply a man hanging upside down

Telling you how to be right-side-up.

 

Coaching

In all its forms,

From sports,

To business,

To life . . .

Is a complete,

Total,

Absolute,

And undeniable . . .

Scam.

 

Intentions

Are typically kind and noble.

But it remains

A scam, nonetheless.

 

For a thing cannot be

Where it is not.

 

The notion

Of “coaching” someone

To be this or that . . .

Is a flat-earth philosophy.

 

As a human being

You do not know the Truth.

 

Understandable.

 

As a human being

You are endlessly

And incessantly

And flagrantly troubled

By your Mind.

 

Understandable.

 

You do not know why

Life does this and that to you

When you seemingly do not deserve it.

 

Understandable.

 

You do not know why you have endlessly failed

At X

Even though you have gloriously succeeded at Y.

Understandable.

 

There are endless complexities

Within a human being.

 

Strife and turmoil

And confusion and fear . . .

 

And these things

Have an answer.

 

There are

Truth

That indeed solve them.

 

But the moment one enters

The domain of spirituality and self-help,

And motivational lectures

And stoicism

And this -ism

And that -ism . . .

 

The moment he enters

The domain of methodologies

And techniques

And activities

And hacks

As a solution to his stress,

Fear,

Anxiety,

Turmoil,

Human performance,

Professional results . . .

He is finished.

The game has ended.

And the “fat lady”

As they say . . .

Has sung.

 

For he has entered a domain

That will never

In a hundred million years,

Or two hundred million lifetimes,

Provide him a sustainable

And permanent solution

To his problems.

 

Coaching

Destroys

Human lives.

 

Period.

 

He who has a soft heart

For coaching,

Self-help,

Self-improvement,

Self-development

Hacks,

Spirituality,

Stoicism,

X-ism, Y-ism, and Z-ism . . .

Surrenders and destroys

Any opportunity whatsoever

To learn the Truth,

Or become Whole,

Or arrive at Peace and Freedom,

Or hold his native human potential

In his hand.

 

Such a man

Will forever be searching.

 

For such a man

Will forever

Remain Lost.

 

Namaste.